Open GRD files in your browser
The gradient presets designers trade by the pack. See every gradient in one right here, without Photoshop. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens as a sheet of every brush, pattern, gradient, shape or style in it, each with its name and size.
- Every tip, pattern, gradient, shape or style • Its name and size
- Filter a big pack by name
- Click one to open it full size
- Save each one as a PNG
About GRD
Photoshop saves its gradient presets in .grd files, and packs of metals, skies, neon and film looks are shared as GRD. Photopea and other editors read them too.
From Photoshop 6, a GRD is a descriptor of each gradient: its name, its color stops with their places and midpoints, in RGB, HSB, CMYK, Lab or a book's colors, and its transparency stops. Noise gradients keep only their settings, and make their colors up each time.
Filepeek draws every gradient on a sheet with its name and stops, its transparency over a checkerboard, and a filter finds one in a big pack. A click opens a gradient as a PNG, and the button beside it saves it.
Photoshop gradients
.grd
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Adobe, for Photoshop
Inside the file
- Holds
- Gradient presets
- Each one
- Color and transparency stops
- Colors
- RGB, HSB, CMYK, Lab
- Made by
- Photoshop
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens GRD gradients in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open GRD
- WindowsPhotoshop and Photoshop Elements
- MacPhotoshop and Photoshop Elements
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I see the gradients in a GRD file?
Drop it on this page. Every gradient shows on a sheet with its name and its stops.
Can I use these gradients in another app?
Save a gradient as a PNG and pick its colors from it in any app, or open the GRD in Photopea, which loads Photoshop's gradients.
Why does a gradient look grainy?
It's a noise gradient: Photoshop makes its colors up each time from its settings, so the file holds no stops. It shows as a spread of noise, marked Noise.